Overcoming Quotes

“Perhaps,
The man-hero is not the exceptional monster,
But he that of repetition is most master.”
― Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

“We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.”
― Isabel Allende

“To reach your goals you’ve got to get rid of your butt. A butt is nothing more than a Barrier Undermining The Truth! The truth is you are more powerful than you realize.”
― Rodney Walker

“To think how different ones life would be had one moment not altered it all - just don’t sit there too long or you’ll self sabotage all your growth.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Turn my back to the door,
Feels so much better now
No need to try, anymore
Nothing left to lose
As the voice that's in the air saying, 'Don't look back to nowhere'
There's a force that's always there

And I'll never be, quite the same as I was before these,
Part of you, still remains
Oh, its out of focus
Your just somewhere that I've been
And I won't go back again

And I'll never be like I was, the day I met you
To naive? Yes, I was
Boy that's why I let you in
Wear your memory like a stain
Can't erase or numb the pain,
Here to stay with me forever
I'm breathing in, breathing out
Ain't that what it's all about?
Living life, crazing loud
Like I have the right to
No more words, in my mouth,
Nothing left to figure out,
But I don't think I'll ever break through,
The ghost of you.”
― EJR

“Be grateful for the tests, difficulties and challenges you are going through, because it's preparing you for the Next Level and your Breakthrough.”
― Jeanette Coron

“Then darkness rolled up again, the dark essay that is primeval but not eternal, and yields to its own painful dawn.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“We've all got scars. Words that were said to you when you were young... Things you saw that you should never have seen... Lifelong consequences from stupid decisions, whether ours or someone else's...
Men, make sure that they are SCARS not WOUNDS.
If you keep finding that you are sensitive about certain things, held back by the same unreasonable fears, or that you keep making the same bad decisions repeatedly, or that you have habits you just can't quit.... chances are good that you have a wound that never healed right. It's not a scar, it's a wound or an infection.
Get it cleaned out and get it healed. If that means you need to get some professional help, to talk to a trusted friend about it, or whatever - the only person that can make the decision to get that part of your life healed is you.
A scar shows you've been through the process.
An overly sensitive attitude, a destructive habit, a fearful mindset just show that you have a wound you need to work on.”
― Josh Hatcher

“Adversity is an essential ingredient of the human experience.”
― Asa Don Brown

“While fear is often associated with safety and caution, they are not the same.”
― Asa Don Brown

“Living with bipolar disorder isn’t about trying to always be happy. It’s about looking up into the sky during your darkest nights and seeing the stars shining down on you. The darker your world becomes, the brighter they shine. They are the hope inside that guides you until the sun rises once more. It is then that you have stolen victory from certain defeat.”
― Bryce R. Hostetler, Slip-Resistant Socks: My Journey with Bipolar Disorder

“If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be the crooked line.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Galileo

“It is the genius of life that demands of those who partake in it that they are not only the guardians of what was and is, but what will be.

—Thomas Nō Kannon, The Lady and the Samurai +”
― douglas laurent, The lady and the samurai

“If we learn to cross them properly, the rivers that we cry can lead us to oceans of invincible happiness.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones, Guru In The Glass: A Mysterious Encounter While Dying To Live The Unlived Life

“People working together can overcome many obstacles, often within themselves, and by doing so can make the world a better place.”
― Mo Mowlam, Momentum: The Struggle for Peace, Politics and the People

“When your why for overcoming is greater than the obstacle, the obstacle ceases to exist.”
― Billy Alsbrooks

“Do not let a late start lead you to a bad finish: the strongest in life can be the weakest in the beginning.”
― Paul Kellie

“We came to Earth to overcome the world, and we do so by arming ourselves with love.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Life requires work, planning, and progression to keep in step with future growth. But it is the appreciation of time that makes our life invaluable. In doing so, time is temporarily halted, captured in the moments colored by the beauty and love that surrounds us.

Take the time to enjoy the view. Don't sweat the small stuff. Focus on what's important in life and try not to let time dictate the pace of the journey.”
― Judith Cosby, Weaving Threads of Gratitude Journal

“The most fulfilled people are those who completely express themselves via their work. You know when this happens because even though you are working very hard – much harder than ordinary people – everything is in a sense effortless. Once you exist in such a way, you cannot imagine doing anything else. You do what you do because it is the actualization of who you are. It doesn’t matter if it leads to external success or not. You have internally achieved everything you hoped for and you wouldn’t swap it for anything. So, what about you? Are you all over the place? Have you not yet clicked with the activity that seems effortless to you and fully satisfying, or, if you have, do you doubt that you could make a living from it, hence are plagued by doubts and the need to compromise? Life is a great struggle. It crushes almost everyone. Only the world-historic figures survive the Meat Grinder.”
― Thomas Stark, Holenmerism and Nullibism: The Two Faces of the Holographic Universe

“The world-view of the poets centred in their experience of human destiny itself and of the way in which it could be overcome through that spirit of heroism in the midst of tragedy which had grown to maturity in the hard struggles of a century filled with inward upheaval and threatened with constant danger from without.”
― Werner Wilhelm Jaeger, The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers

“If you want merits for your suffering and medals of honor for your affliction, find ways to heal.”
― Asha Tyson, How I Retired at 26!: A Step-By-Step Guide to Accessing Your Freedom and Wealth at Any Age

“As Victory is the result of Christ's Life lived out in the believer, it is important that we see clearly that Victory, and not defeat, is God's Purpose for his Children. The Scriptures are very decided upon this truth.”
― Rosalind Goforth, How I Know God Answers Prayer: The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time

“May the hope of overcoming your difficulties gives you the determined strength to fulfill your dreams.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The joy of overcoming is the beauty of life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Despite the Inequities of MEN, All they want is common, PERFECT Literally WISE . WISE, doing the RIGHT thing at the RIGHT moment also WISE is not resenting the past mistakes but WANTING to live BETTER than YESTERDAY overcoming the faulty . It's never too Late.”
― Lungh Gangmei

“We need a road of trials, a succession of ordeals, to provide the resistance we must overcome in order to become moral (rational), which is to say intelligent. If we met no resistance, there would be no need for us to evolve. For a system to evolve into God, it needs the maximum possible resistance – it needs the Devil. The “world” is Satanic in order that we must become God to overcome it.”
― Thomas Stark, The Stairway to Consciousness: The Birth of Self-Awareness from Unconscious Archetypes

“Garden of the Dragons (The ’Halla, Vol. # 3)
Chapter Ten Excerpt (original editing)

...
Hachiman, surveys he the woe,
Wipes his brow, hate does flow.
A ruined life, heh, a loss of face,
He must have her now, to his disgrace
(Wed to Kari now, locked in time and place).

Battle over, moon still shines,
Lilies float soft in quiet time.
Scented visions and memories sear remains,
Of this terrible night of what was feigned.

Visuals lithe, of sword and blade,
Disguise the carnage and the pain.
Petals soft, they hide our gaze,
And cover the ground and its grave.

Flowers and moon in water light,
T'winkills the calm of a zen-burst night.
Now to life, the poem to seek repose,
And bury beneath those riddles she holds.

Nectars sweet, precious flowers,
A fragranted grave that allures and empowers.

Heart~beat, heart~beat, tells the way,
Of things long remembered and a far lost day.
How many memories, Kari knew,
That stain with age, being so few.

Samurai remembers - feels it as a man,
Clutches he his fist; wind in hand. . . .

". . .I have searched for you a very long time."
"Do not waste breath, kill. It is our way here."
"Not before I have my say, Corpse-eater."
"No wonder you took so long to find me."

"I have had a lot of time for thought," quietly he,
"- T'is a shame we could not agree."
"No more room for that," forcefully he snapped,
"You dishonored me twice and now, I will take one back."

"- Not enough? Hachi," said cordially she,
"If you are going to - cut the artery, please."
Tilt she her neck, exposed but her vein,
Samurai frowned, decidedly vain.

Looked he at his hands -
"They're already too bloody for today."

"Hummph. Such trite man'ers are atrocious.
For yourself you are much too engaged."

("Yet, a moment and it is done," thought he,
"But to gain it thus, a hollow travesty.
I must face her in all her strength,
The bladed Valkyrie, the one called great").

"I could kill you now, but I'd rather not,
This room is too unbecoming for the proper job."

"Charmed that you still think so highly of me."

"- Only then of your haunted beauty, I shall be free."

Feeling that weight, slowly dropped he his blade,
Time enough - rituals to cleanse and to pray.
Tossed his sword, pined her down -
Smooshed her face to the floor, Pinching it to a frown.
"Oh no, my little angel, you have it all wrong!
I mean only to kill you when you are strong.
Do not fear, I won't let anyone harm you in strife,
In the meantime, try not to flirt with your life.
Stay healthy - then we shall settle our love, unrequite."

A biting grin creased Samurai's scarved face,
"Let us fix it properly, according to my r'ace."
"Bushido," mouthed Kari, her voice empty as the word.
"And there will be no running away this time -
Rest assured."

Slowly withdrew he and left the room,
"Bastard," spit Kari, caustic of his doom.
The girl breathing vexiously, then calmly in the dark,
The door closed, silent, the light dribbling out.

Sounds below, drip mute in time,
Reality presses, she makes her fate thind.

And Skuld drinking, contemplates she her sibylline,
It was her hour now, the night of the wolverine.”
― douglas laurent

“Know your times and its designs. Swordplay is exacting. Thrus, be shrewd with your jianqizhe “swordpraying.” A lot is needed.”
― Douglas Laurent

“No matter what you have gone through, who has wronged you and what appears to be a loss, you get no recognition for your challenges unless you conquer them.”
― Asha Tyson, How I Retired at 26!: A Step-By-Step Guide to Accessing Your Freedom and Wealth at Any Age